Organization profile

Introduction / mission

Provide major contributions to photonic integration and the associated applications with a particular focus on indium phosphide technology.

Highlighted phrase

Harnessing the efficiency, precision and speed of light in a photonic chip

Organisational profile

Photonics is a rapidly growing field where the total market volume is comparable to the market of electronics, and growing even faster. Whereas integrated circuits are already dominant technologies in the field of electronics, photonic integration is still taking off. It is a critical enabler for the modern internet and is poised to enable new forms of sensing and imaging. The Photonics Integration (PhI) group performs leading edge research into indium phosphide semiconductor based technology for photonic integration and its applications. This develops along three research lines listed below ('read more') and involves a number of national and international research projects. Our group offers opportunities for Master and PhD students to do leading-edge research on advanced photonic ICs and technology, and to prepare for a job in a variety of high-tech companies that use photonics, semiconductor technologies, and/or photonic integrated circuits in their products. You might even think to start your own business in this rapidly growing field.

The Photonics Integration research develops along three research lines:

Monolithic integration of indium phosphide photonic devices. We have pioneered the generic integration methodology for InP integrated photonics. This approach enables new building blocks to be continuously added to a highly advanced integration platform with seamless integration of lasers with amplifiers, filters, modulators, detectors and more.

Heterogeneous and hybrid integration platforms combining indium phosphide circuits with silicon technology, high-speed electronics and low-loss dielectric waveguide technologies. These platforms enable research into new methods of scaling and assembly.
Nanophotonic integration using the indium phosphide membrane on a silicon platform. This enables the miniaturisation of photonic devices, and the seamless combination of high confinement photonics, sub-wavelength engineering, lasers and amplifiers.

The technology platforms developed by PhI researchers become available on an open access basis via JePPIX.eu

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Profiles

Huub P.M.M. Ambrosius

h.p.m.m.ambrosius@tue.nl

NanoLab@TU/e - Managing Director of Research Institute
Department of Electrical Engineering, Photonic Integration - Managing Director of Research Institute

Person: OBP : Supportive and management staff

Pengli An

p.an1@tue.nl

Department of Electrical Engineering, Photonic Integration - University Researcher

Person: OWP : University Teacher / Researcher

Stefanos Andreou, MSc

S.Andreou@tue.nl

Department of Electrical Engineering, Photonic Integration - Doctoral Candidate

Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)

Projects 2014 2023

1 Finished
1 Active

Zwaartekracht ECO Research Centre for Integrated Nanophotonics

Koonen, T., van Zantvoort, J., Kurtic - Brajic, M., Kurtic - Brajic, M., Smit, M., Croes, S., Cao, Z., Mohammed, M., Zhang, X., Trinidad, A., van der Heide, S., Mamun, M. & Shi, B.

1/01/14 → 31/12/23

Project: Research direct

AUTOALIGN: Electronically aligned optical-fiber-arrays

Eijkemans, C., Williams, K., Cardarelli, S., van Goor, A., van Goor, A., van Mil, J., van Mil, J. & Hegh, L.

1/02/15 → 30/04/19

Project: Research direct

Research Output 1967 2019

1203 Conference contribution
474 Article
53 Phd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e)
32 Poster
121 More

1.3 Integration of photonics and electronics

Smit, M., Williams, K. & van der Tol, J., 6 Mar 2019, 2019 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2019. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 29-34 6 p. 8662321

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Photonics

Electronic equipment

Indium phosphide

Silicon

Light amplifiers

112 Gb/s PAM-4 transmission over 1.5 km with an EAM in generic integration platform

Trajkovic, M., Benyahya, K., Simonneau, C., Blache, F., Debregeas, H., Provost, J. G., Williams, K. A. & Leijtens, X. J. M., 1 Jul 2019, OECC/PSC 2019 - 24th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference/International Conference Photonics in Switching and Computing 2019. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 3 p. 8817746

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

pulse amplitude modulation

Pulse amplitude modulation

Modulators

modulators

platforms